SOC2069
Researching
Social Life 1
Designing social research
Dr. Chris Moreh
Information and data
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the question of how to capture informatiion in an efficient way for sociological analysis
the ‘map and the territory’ question
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“Even if it were possible to observe people closely as their lives proceeded, we could not guarantee that this strategy would collect”truer” information, especially about such unobservable matters as motivations, perceptions, and views ” (Gerson and Damaske 2020:20?)
also the question of ‘stories’; for this, see also Byrne (2002)
stories about cases, individual or ‘variables’ :::
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thick description
‘explanatory’ rather than ‘predictive analysis’ (Gerson and damaske 2020; 14)(Gerson and Damaske 2020)
“what,” “why,” and “how” questions. - ‘depth interviewing’ that connect inductive approaches to theory
what can small samples tell us?
setting ‘sample bundaries’ depth interviewing)